Meaning of "die Kurve kriegen"?

Question

I played chess with the German speaker and he tells me that 'Irgendwie habe ich noch die Kurve gekriegt'. Generally I understand that somehow he took advantage of the game.So what's the meaning of this phrase? In which context it can be used?upd: He has checkmated me after all.

Answer 1

Hello,

Irgendwie habe ich noch die Kurve gekriegt or

Irgendwie habe ich es noch geschafft.

German expression.

Somehow I managed to do it.

Answer 2

the literal translation would be "to get the curve" or "get the lane" which means (slightly better) to "stay in the lane". You use this for example when you haven't reached your potential yet, like you're not doing as good as you'd expect, but you're hoping to get there eventually.

So he expressed that his chess skills weren't yet as good as he hoped to be, on that given day, but that he wanted to get better eventually